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Date:      Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:58:41 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards? 
Message-ID:  <4.1.19981215095742.06e2a490@mail.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981215083520.18639j-100000@animaniacs.itribe .net>
References:  <199812150232.SAA01836@dingo.cdrom.com>

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That's 100BaseVG, an alternative 100 Mbps standard. It's better than
100BaseT when the LAN gets congested, but -- like Betamax -- did not
win the standards war.

--Brett

At 08:39 AM 12/15/98 -0500, Jamie Bowden wrote:
 
>On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
>
>> Not AFAIK.  100bT and ISA just don't get along, and the NE2000 
>> programming model is such that you max out at about 10Mbps anyway.
>
>I have one 100mbit ISA card.  It's got a chip with both HP and AT&T's logo
>on it.  It has two rj-45 ports on it, one for 10mbit, one for 100mbit.
>The chip is labled :
>
>100vg
>1821-1400
>9427s 5543540
>
>I have no idea who made it, or where it came from, as it was here when I
>got here.  I've never even put it in a machine to see how well it works,
>but it's kinda cool, as I had never seen a 100mbit ISA card before.
>
>Jamie Bowden
>
>-- 
>Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net
>
>If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up.  But boggle can go.
>	-Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)
>


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